'Duckies' help sick kids, kin build bonds

Bruce Asato

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At a seminar last month held by the group Prayers on Wings, Devin Nakasone watched as Dallas Schmidt, 10, painted a rubber duck for his infant sister, who is in the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children. Nakasone, who found solace in a toy duck when he had leukemia as a child, started Prayers on Wings to "build bridges of communication between children in crisis and their families, one feather at a time."